Teaching Vlogging to Students and Audience Discussion
Thinking about a class you currently teach or can see yourself teaching in the future, briefly describe an online activity, assessment, or resource that you will design that uses online technology in some way.
Provide an argument for selecting your chosen technology. Make sure to consider the following, as your responses to these questions will be assessed. The main focus of this assignment is your thought process in choosing the technology to support your online task.
- Briefly describe your chosen activity, assessment or resource, and the technology you think is appropriate to support it (100 words).
- Explain why have you chosen this particular technology instead of other technologies to support your chosen activity, assessment, or resource (300 words).
- Is your chosen technology open access, or institutionally-supported? (https://tomatfult.wordpress.com/2016/03/17/week-3-…). What are the benefits and risks associated with the technology you have chosen? Think about the relevant benefits and risks of open and institutionally-supported technologies in your answer (500 words).
Audio log on requirements
We just want to quickly talk about assignment one, selecting technology.
We just want to give you an idea about what this assignment aims to do and
what we expect from you in this assignment.
>> So, in this first assignment, we’re really asking you to think
about your class, a class you teach, a class you might be teaching in the future,
and think about whether you want to, what needs to change in that class.
So for example, do you want to redesign, or create a new assignment,
a new resource, a new activity, and then think about
what sort of technology would support that activity assessment or resource.
So you only need to pick one.
And you need to think about why you’ve picked it.
And what sort of technology would best support it.
So we’ve offered in that assignment three basic biting questions for
you, with an optional one that we’ll speak about in a second.
But the first one is really just asking you to very briefly describe
your chosen activity, assessment, or research.
For example,
perhaps you want to engage your students in using a blog as a reflective journal.
So the activity is for them to, every week in your class,
to reflect on what they’re learning in your particular subject area.
>> Can I just say though I think it’s important that we don’t want you to fully
describe what this activity is.
So whether it’s just a blog to do this or
whether it’s an online resource you want to create for some other reason.
It’s just to give the outline because really this assignment is about
choosing the technology you want to use.
And thinking about the reasons why you want to choose it.
And what’s good and
bad about those different technologies that you need to consider.
>> But you also want to think about that it’s not about the technologies.
So you don’t want to select the technology up front.
You want to actually select what you want your students to be able to do.
So if we go back to the example I was giving, if you want them to reflect
on what they’re living in their course a great way to do that is using a blog,
for example.
And that’s why you need to say, you’ve chosen a blog because it’s
an activity where you want your students to be reflecting on the course material.
Now if you want to also assess that, give them some marks for
doing that, then that becomes an assessment task and that’s fine as well.
So very briefly and in about 100 words, or if you’re doing a video approximately
a minute, give a brief overview of the activity,
the assessment, to resource, why you selected it, to create or
redesign and what technology you think would best support it.
Then, going into that second question, now we’re asking you to
talk about why you selected that particular technology over others.
>> So, the things to think about there, it pays to go through the modules in
the course that talk about open and institutionally supported technologies.
Why is online teaching important?
All those things will actually help you validate your decisions, and
we want you to reflect upon the real reasons why you’re choosing it.
So you’ll see the questions that we’re asking.
We want you to answer those directly, and it will actually guide you into
thinking about those particular reasons for your choices.
Now the optional part at the end.
For those of you who are already working in an educational institution,
we ask you to think about any policies or- >> Strategies.
>> Strategies that are in place from your institution that you need to
think about when you’re implementing your idea.
Now again, if you’re not teaching in an institution,
you don’t have to worry about this part.
But if you are, spend some time investigating it, because it will
ultimately help you form an idea that you can use in your real work practice.
>> Right, so for example, in your institution you might have to
be using the learning management system that your institution provides.
And perhaps you don’t have the flexibility of using an open technology.
Those are some of the constraints you just might have to be working with.
So that’s why we’re asking you to just consider what those constraints and
limitations might be when you’re selecting the technology for your class.
